Mental Health Throughout the Years This ninety-minute presentation will serve to take a light-hearted approach to how the concept of “mental health” has changed and how more recently an individual’s psychological state and well-being have gained greater significance in the workplace. The latter part of the presentation will focus on methods for dealing with stressful situations and how to recognize when situational stress becomes something more significant. The session will include a thirty-minute interactive activity intended to strengthen the application the skills discussed.
Learning Objectives:
Demonstrate a general understanding of how mental health practices have changed over the past century, how those changes have impacted society, and how society views psychology and psychological principles such as mental health.
Demonstrate a general understanding of the importance of mental health today.
Demonstrate a general understanding of how to recognize when stress has become something more significant such as non-situational depression, or anxiety, and how to seek help.
Demonstrate a general understanding of the cycle of how thoughts drive emotions and emotions drive actions and actions drive thoughts, etc.
Demonstrate an understanding of how to break the negative thought, unsettling emotion, negative/ambivalent action cycle and replace it with positive thoughts, peaceful emotions, and positive actions (group activity completed based on this concept).
Demonstrate a general knowledge of some methods for reducing stress, including shifting perspective, positive thoughts, exercise, nutrition, and prayer/meditation.